I never really enjoyed reading, and have few memories of being read to. My earliest memory is of my Dad reading Peter Pan and The Little Tug Boat That Could (I think that was the name) as a little kid. I also remember my Dad reading the book Where the Wild Things Are. Those were the only books I liked. I am not sure how often I was read to, but I do not think it was too often. I was a restless child and was hard fo

I have enjoyed few books in lifetime. The first book I truly enjoyed was Huckleberry Finn. I believe it was the first book I read in its entirety. I read other works for school, but never finished them unless they were a page or two. Even for class, I would look up answers for questions instead of reading the material. I found it very difficult to keep up with assigned reading. I would be thinking about other things while I read, sports, girls, whatever else, so the words would enter my mind and then leave. It came to a point that I saw no point in reading because I would not learn the information anyway. I felt I comprehend material much better when I listen to a lecture and take notes. That is how I got through college, of course my grades could have been better, but I made it. Today I am making an effort to change my bad habits and keep up with the reading. I feel this class will help my reading skills and I find that more important than teaching to others at this time.

In high school, the only reading I remember doing is for class. Most of the reading was from textbooks. I never really kept up with that reading either. We did read the book Black boy in Humanities class. I did enjoy that book. Again the book was fairly short and easy to read. It was an interesting story and kept my interest. Basically I need material that will keep my interest in order for me to finish an assignment. History always interested me in high school; actually just the history of wars and battles. I kept up with the reading on those assignments. Other History such as the History of Politics and such didn’t interest me, so I would not read those assignments

Today, I still do not read. I read the newspaper on the Internet every morning, and I pick out the articles that interest me. I feel I do not have much time to read. I work full time at Ameritech, take classes, and my commute is an hour each way. I get most of my news from talk radio. During the week I get home around 6:15 and are usually asleep by 8 PM. I watch very little television. Actually my television is limited to whatever local sports team is playing that night. On the weekend’s, I’m trying to catch up with homework, friends, girlfriend and so forth. As well as unwind from the workweek. Thus, I feel I just do not have time to read for pleasure.

I didn’t enjoy recreational reading until the summer of my sophomore year in college. I really got into science-fiction books and read nearly six books that summer. I was a lifeguard at a small condominium pool. It was never really busy, so I started to read. I enjoyed it and even read when I was not at the pool. I looked forward to it. Once school started again though, I did not make time to read for pleasure. There were many other things that happen when you are at school; they all distracted me. As it is there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to do much extra-curricular reading, especially away at college when you go to class during the day, work at night, go out to the bar after work and then sleep until noon. I know it should not be an excuse, but I just got caught up in the moment.

When I get a chance to read I prefer to read in bed at night. Reading at night seems to relax my mind and relieve stress from the day’s work. I would only be able to stay awake for a few pages, so it would take a long time to finish anything I read. Though most the reading I do is on the Internet at work.

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